June 2010
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Trainer Mentalities: An Observation of the Hearts...
I’ll admit it.
I love Pokémon. It won me over with its deep and ever expansive battle system, and it continues to pull me back with it’s charm. Take for example the Battle Frontier.
At the Battle Frontier you and a friend battle together against opposing trainers, gain BP, and generally have a good time. While I do enjoy playing Pokémon together with my girlfriend, what I...
May 2010
27 posts
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Scott Pilgrim Gets A Life In Second Trailer
I have been blown away by the second Scott Pilgrim VS. The World trailer, and really all it took was one little detail.
Scott getting an extra life - just like in the novel and the fact that its his sprite head is just incredible.
Call me even more stoked than I was when I saw the first trailer. Highlights of the new one include Caulkin’s Wallace Wells, Schwartzman’s Gideon,...
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Meet the new Legendaries: Reshiram and Zekrom
Fresh from pokebeach and serebii comes the best news I have seen all day.
Reshiram and Zekrom! The new legendary pokemon from Pokemon Black & White!
Reshiram (white) and Zekrom (black) are exactly what I was hoping for. It’s the tiny details, like the wings and the tails, that make me appreciate Satoshi Tajiri’s work. He is able to take very simple things -a plant, a...
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Mother Creator Tweets - Shigesato Itoi On Twitter
While everything he says looks like this:
もうひとりITとナイスな距離感をお持ちの方に電話取材。「ほしいような気がする。ロケのときなんかに‥‥そうね、ひまつぶし」「旅行のとき？‥‥持っていかないような気がする」「家では‥‥パソコン見ちゃうかな。夕ごはんどうするの？はい‥‥はい」と、そんな感じの樋口可南子さんでしたぷう〜。
And he’ll probably only talk about things like the iPad and his cute dog, Bouillon*:
Maybe someday, just maybe, he’ll say something that looks like this:
今日の「ほぼ日」で、赤瀬川原平さんせっど。 MOTHER 4...
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Lego Chocobo!
A ridiculously cool Final Fantasy Chocobo made cleverly out of Legos by Flickr user, Carlmerriam.
Could you imagine how boss it would be to have official Final Fantasy Lego sets?
I’ll take a Tonberry minifig please!
- Kyle
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Retro Get! The Cool Tri-Screen Wonder of Vtech's...
In 1982 Vtech released Deputy Den - a handheld ahead of its time. So far ahead of its time that it had something even Nintendo didn’t.
Three screens.
According to miniarcade:
“”This tri-screen game can be played in 4 different modes - you can traverse all 3 screens in succession, or just play a game within just 1 of the screens.”
From the sound of it, it...
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Definitive Proof that Yoshi's Island is One of The...
The Raspberry Jam band is awesome. I would pay to see them.
via 4cr
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Inspiration for Sandshrew and Sandslash: The...
I used to always think that Sandshrew and Sandslash were inspired by the armadillo, and boy was I wrong!
The totally cute and apparent inspiration for the two Pokémon is the pangolin.
So cute!
Biologist, Pokénerd, and On the Origin of Species editorial writer, George Hutcheon wrote a ridiculously geeky and awesome article on the similarities and the background of the pangolin for...
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The Strange Virtual Boy FPS: Insmouse No Yakata
While the video quality is terrible, superdeadlite gives a great explanation of mostly unknown Japanese Virtual Boy game, Insmouse No Yakata.
The game is a simplistic and retro styled FPS based on Japanese film based on an H.P. LoveCraft work. It really makes you wish that perhaps a better FPS could’ve been released for the Virtual Boy using some Mode 7 mapping magic.
The Virtual Boy...
WatchOh how I wish this was real.
John Cloutte rotoscoped the imagery EA’s Skate It series by hand in Photoshop (sans filters) and animated it with cute bit sound effects into a teaser trailer.
Cool.
via GameSetWatch
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Dino Run Coming to iPhone
Dino Run is an absolutely fantastic flash game from pixel wizards, PixelJam Games. The game has been a flash staple for a couple of years now and is currently “slowly, but steadily” in development for the iPhone.
According to PixelJam’s Miles Tilmann “[they] have a lot of the engine worked out, but not a lot of the graphics just yet. Spiralstorm Studios [is] doing the...
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Ape Escape PS3 possibly using Move
I am now officially excited for Playstation Move, and only if Sony actually releases a brand new Ape Escape that uses Playstation Move just as the original Ape Escape was one of the only PS1 games to utilize both analog sticks of the Dual Shock 1.
While I can’t imagine the possibilities of the game being more interesting than a Wii version of Ape Escape, it still is intriguing to me...
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Good Game Get! Kometen
Kometen’s real charm lies not in in its beautiful water colored visuals, nor its superbly crafted and catchy background music. While both are charming in their own right, they’re really not the defining points when it comes to the iPhone game’s magic.
Kometen rules because it engages us in such a simple way with non-linear goals that promote the joy of flying through space,...
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Good Game Get! Photo Dojo
It’s free until June 10th and 200 points afterwards. It is the absolute most I have laughed with a game all year.
Photo Dojo is a simple fighting game and it’s not even that good of a fighting game.
The magic comes when you create yourself and your friends into fighters.
You take photos and record audio of yourself taunting, shooting fireballs, punching, and so on.
Done in...
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Pixel Tilting: The Great, Interactive, and...
Tilting a screen to reveal something or to change angles in a virtual world isn’t new, but it’s about to be released as something really stylish and effectively fun.
Enter extra cool pixel artist, eBoy and his eclectic low resolution, high color, and sharp output of a vision for art. As a pioneer of the pixel art genre he has more than a knack for his craft and now he is pushing...
A Pokémon Fan Artist with ESP Predicting Black &...
In what seems like an innocent fan creation gone prediction, in 2008 a deviantART user named RizzorArtPage created a fake starter Pokémon named Bublear.
This morning I received an email from my girlfriend detailing the above phenomenon and an image of the alternate universe water bear Pokémon, Bublear.
Yesterday I predicted that indeed the third Pokémon silhouette revealed is probably water...
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Silhouettes of Starters: Your first Pokédex Entry...
Pokémon Sunday this week revealed the negative spaces of the mysterious starter Pokémon from the new unreleased Pokémon Black & White games.
Fansite Pokébeach broke news of the reveal and produced a nice resolution screen of the silhouettes.
As depicted by my color-coded question marks, from left to right I think that the first is fire, the second is grass, and the third is water.*
I...
if mario was designed in 2010
Game designer Zach Hiwiller has created some funny what if commentary on contemporary gaming by applying some modern design trends to Super Mario Bros.
The result isn’t really eye-opening, but as a means to explain what could be wrong with some gaming today - it really conveys the point well. Could you imagine how horrible the beginning of Super Mario Bros. would be if Lakitu gave you...
Famicase '10 My Favorites
Every year Meteor curates an art project in Japan for artists to create imaginary cartridges for Nintendo Family Computer (NES) games.
The results are pure fake nostalgia with a longing for some of the games to be real.
A game about rasing Alpaca.
My favorite. Star Cats IV. I mean come on. It doesn’t get better than that.
The logo for this game is absolutely cute to the...
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Tons of Screens from Level 5's and Studio Ghibli's...
The game is starting to look even better, and it already looked great!
Check out the screen collection from Dengeki Online, here.
via, silconera
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